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Genesis 28:22

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

This stone that I have set up as a marker will be God’s house, and I will give to you a tenth of all that you give me.’

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Jacob built an altar there and called the place El-bethel  because it was there that God had revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.


and blessed be God Most High who has handed over your enemies to you. And Abram gave him a tenth of everything.


God said to Jacob, ‘Get up! Go to Bethel and settle there.  Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.’


And he set up an altar there and called it God, the God of Israel.


He was afraid and said, ‘What an awesome place this is! This is none other than the house of God. This is the gate of heaven.’


From there he moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. He built an altar to the Lord there, and he called on the name of the Lord.


Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and there he called on the name of the Lord, the Everlasting God.


At harvest, you are to give a fifth of it to Pharaoh,  and four-fifths will be yours as seed for the field and as food for yourselves, your households, and your dependents.’


So Joseph made it a law, still in effect today in the land of Egypt, that a fifth of the produce belongs to Pharaoh. Only the priests’ land does not belong to Pharaoh.


Bring the full tenth into the storehouse  so that there may be food in my house.  Test me in this way,’  says the Lord of Armies. ‘See if I will not open the floodgates of heaven  and pour out a blessing for you without measure.





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